Sunday, April 5, 2009
Rod Coleman is one of an illustrious line of a famous motorcycling family in New Zealand....
The family has been in the motorcycle trade since early in 1900s and Rod made a name for himself racing motorcycles, firstly in NZ and then in Europe with factory rides for AJS seeing him take numerous top finishing places on machines, such as the AJS 7R3, AJS Porcupine, that at times had their reliability questioned.
Rod wrote a book several years back, I can't now quite ascertain the year, titled "The Colemans...Kiwis on the grass in New Zealand ...on the road in Europe", publishing it himself, it was printed in his home town of Wanganui, New Zealand by "The Print Place".
ISBN 0-473-04956-2
It is a book, 9 1/2" x 6 3/4" x 3/4" thick that is unlikely to have made it to Europe or the USA in any quantity, if at all.
But, if you are interested in motorcycle history as I am, road racing history as I am, with this book lavishly illustrated with photos I have never seen before and are from Rod's personal and family collection, then it's purchase is a "must"...
How to get one....
Rod published it and I'm pretty sure he'll sell you one...
Rod Coleman,
P.O. Box 4316.
Wanganui,
New Zealand.
rodcoleman@nettel.net.nz
Left click on the images to enlarge......
Rod of latter years has been an inveterate restorer of the many interesting motorcycles he has collected...the book illustrates some of them, and I've included as the last photo one of the pages.
I've seen Rod's special booklet featuring all his restored motorcycles...there are 106 in all!
